The Indian Ocean ‘garbage patch’: Empirical evidence from floating macro-litter

Fate of floating plastic debris released along the coasts in a global ocean model

(2021) Fanny Chenillat et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

In Vivo Accumulation of Plastic-Derived Chemicals into Seabird Tissues

(2020) Kosuke Tanaka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Floating macro- and microplastics around the Southern Ocean: Results from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

(2020) Giuseppe Suaria et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Thirty years of marine debris in the Southern Ocean: Annual surveys of two island shores in the Scotia Sea

(2020) Claire M. Waluda et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

(2020) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Bisphenol A and its analogs in muscle and liver of fish from the North East Atlantic Ocean in relation to microplastic contamination. Exposure and risk to human consumers

(2020) Luís Gabriel A. Barboza et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing

(2020) Henri Weimerskirch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Colors of the Ocean Plastics

(2020) Elisa Martí et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

(2020) Mark A. Hindell et al.   NATURE

First evidence of plastic fallout from the North Pacific Garbage Patch

(2020) Matthias Egger et al.   Scientific Reports

Mitigation strategies to reverse the rising trend of plastics in Polar Regions

(2020) Marcus Eriksen et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Decadal changes in plastic litter regurgitated by albatrosses and giant petrels at sub-Antarctic Marion Island

(2020) Vonica Perold et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

(2020) Stephanie B. Borrelle et al.   SCIENCE

Land or sea? What bottles tell us about the origins of beach litter in Kenya

(2020) Peter G. Ryan   WASTE MANAGEMENT

High concentrations of plastic hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean

(2020) Katsiaryna Pabortsava et al.   Nature Communications

In the business of dirty oceans: Overview of startups and entrepreneurs managing marine plastic

(2020) Hanna Dijkstra et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Isolation and characterization of human pathogenic multidrug resistant bacteria associated with plastic litter collected in Zanzibar

(2020) Farah N. Rasool et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Role of Indian Ocean Dynamics on Accumulation of Buoyant Debris

(2019) Mirjam Mheen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Plastic ingestion in seabirds of the western Indian Ocean

(2019) Audrey E. Cartraud et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Colonisation of plastic pellets (nurdles) by E. coli at public bathing beaches

(2019) Alyssa Rodrigues et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Observations of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current over the Udintsev Fracture Zone, the narrowest choke point in the Southern Ocean

(2019) Y.‐H. Park et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean

(2019) K. Heerah et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seasonal variability in global industrial fishing effort

(2019) Jérôme Guiet et al.   PLoS One

Threats to seabirds: A global assessment

(2019) Maria P. Dias et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rapid increase in Asian bottles in the South Atlantic Ocean indicates major debris inputs from ships

(2019) Peter G. Ryan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large impact of Stokes drift on the fate of surface floating debris in the South Indian Basin

(2019) Delphine Dobler et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in wild fish from North East Atlantic Ocean and its potential for causing neurotoxic effects, lipid oxidative damage, and human health risks associated with ingestion exposure

(2019) Luís Gabriel A. Barboza et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean

(2019) Laurent Lebreton et al.   Scientific Reports

Arsenic and five metal concentrations in the muscle tissue of bigeye tuna ( Thunnus obesus ) in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

(2018) C.-Y. Chen et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Tracing the source of marine debris on the beaches of northern New South Wales, Australia: The Bottles on Beaches program

(2018) Stephen D.A. Smith et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic pollution of the world’s seas and oceans as a contemporary challenge in ocean governance

(2018) Marcus Haward   Nature Communications

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

(2018) L. Lebreton et al.   Scientific Reports

Double trouble in the South Pacific subtropical gyre: Increased plastic ingestion by fish in the oceanic accumulation zone

(2018) Ana Markic et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea

(2017) Christian Schmidt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Feeding ecology, isotopic niche, and ingestion of fishery-related items of the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans at Kerguelen and Crozet Islands

(2017) Y Cherel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Navigational threats by derelict fishing gear to navy ships in the Korean seas

(2017) Sunwook Hong et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

(2017) Laurent C. M. Lebreton et al.   Nature Communications

Feeding ecology, isotopic niche, and ingestion of fishery-related items of the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans at Kerguelen and Crozet Islands

(2017) Y Cherel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Modeling marine surface microplastic transport to assess optimal removal locations

(2016) Peter Sherman et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The flip-or-flop boutique: Marine debris on the shores of St Brandon's rock, an isolated tropical atoll in the Indian Ocean

(2016) Hindrik Bouwman et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Regional differences in plastic ingestion among Southern Ocean fur seals and albatrosses

(2016) Peter G. Ryan et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Does size and buoyancy affect the long-distance transport of floating debris?

(2015) Peter G Ryan   Environmental Research Letters

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Composition and potential origin of marine debris stranded in the Western Indian Ocean on remote Alphonse Island, Seychelles

(2015) Aurélie V. Duhec et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is global, pervasive, and increasing

(2015) Chris Wilcox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean

(2015) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   Nature Communications

Anthropogenic pressure on the open ocean: The growth of ship traffic revealed by altimeter data analysis

(2014) J. Tournadre   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Low densities of drifting litter in the African sector of the Southern Ocean

(2014) Peter G. Ryan et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A simple technique for counting marine debris at sea reveals steep litter gradients between the Straits of Malacca and the Bay of Bengal

(2013) Peter G. Ryan   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Litter survey detects the South Atlantic ‘garbage patch’

(2013) Peter G. Ryan   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Tracking seabirds to identify potential Marine Protected Areas in the tropical western Indian Ocean

(2012) Matthieu Le Corre et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters

(2012) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Numerical modelling of floating debris in the world’s oceans

(2012) L.C.-M. Lebreton et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Fronts, meanders and eddies in Drake Passage during the ANT-XXIII/3 cruise in January–February 2006: A satellite perspective

(2011) Nicolas Barré et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Habitat associations of floating debris and marine birds in the North East Pacific Ocean at coarse and meso spatial scales

(2011) Andrew J. Titmus et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters

(2011) Nikolai Maximenko et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Interdecadal changes in at-sea distribution and abundance of subantarctic seabirds along a latitudinal gradient in the Southern Indian Ocean

(2010) CLARA PÉRON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

(2009) D. K. A. Barnes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES